The Jewish community suffered to a huge extent from Nazi propaganda, terror and repression between 1935 and 1945. Persecution on the Jewish community varied from the destruction of Jewish businesses and homes to the ‘final solution’ plan to wipe out the Jewish race. Key individuals such as Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels played an integral part in the propaganda, terror and repression on the Jewish community between 1933 and 1945. After Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany in January 1933 his drive to achieve a ‘volksgemeinschaft’ began to take effect on the Jewish community. Hitler aimed to achieve a society compromising of strong, healthy Aryans. In ‘Mein Kampf’, Hitler further developed the idea of the Jews as an evil race struggling for world domination. Hitler believed the Jewish race was vastly inferior. He blamed the Jews for every problem Germany faced and believed they were the cause of defeat in World War 1.
In 1933 anti-Jewish action began from Hitler youth and SA activists ordered by Adolf himself. The Nazi party’s propaganda (led by Joseph Goebbels, ministry of propaganda) campaigned against the Jewish community. It was the central tool that the Germans used to sway the hearts and minds of the German people. Pamphlets were widely given explaining the sub-human character of the Jewish race. The word ‘sub-human’ entered newspapers and radio and was soon a part of everyday language to describe Jews. SA party activists soon started their own anti-Jewish campaign which began the terror on the Jewish community in 1933. SA men began to stand in front of Jewish shops to warn off customers and Jews were excluded from Government jobs. Other methods were also used to separate Jews from the rest of society. All schools had to give lessons on how the Jews were working to destroy Germany and Jewish children were no longer able to attend school or university. Jewish property was being sold at low prices to Aryan ...